--- title: Bossy verbs, also called imperative verbs, tell you what to do: mix,… — Reading non-fiction: recount, instructions, report · tree and pragmatics description: Bossy verbs, also called imperative verbs, tell you what to do: mix, fill, push, stir. Who acts: Bossy verbs. A sentence of the lesson «Reading non-fiction: recount, instructions, report» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/23-reading-non-fiction-recount-instructions-report/25/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/) / [Reading non-fiction: recount, instruct…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/23-reading-non-fiction-recount-instructions-report/) / 25 # Reading non-fiction: recount, instructions, report, sentence 25 Bossy verbs, also called imperative verbs, tell you what to do: mix, fill, push, stir. **Who acts:** Bossy verbs · **What happens:** call, tell, do, mix, fill, push · **To what, where:** imperative verbs, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Reading non-fiction: recount, instructions, report» of the english course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bossy verbs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:023-reading-non-fiction-recount-instructions-report.lesson:25 # text = Bossy verbs, also called imperative verbs, tell you what to do: mix, fill, push, stir. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 023-reading-non-fiction-recount-instructions-report.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R3-conj-first ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Bossy bossy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 verbs verb NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 also also ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 acl _ _ 6 imperative imperative ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 verbs verb NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:obj 8 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 9 tell tell VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 9 iobj _ _ 11 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 13 obj _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 ccomp _ _ 14 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 15 mix mix VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 fill fill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 push push VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=17:conj 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 stir stir VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=17:conj 22 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** | participle | Bossy verbs *not said here* | imperative verbs | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | Bossy verbs | | you | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | | 4 | **mix** | infinitive | Bossy verbs *not said here* | | | | | | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **fill** | infinitive | Bossy verbs *not said here* | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **push** | infinitive | Bossy verbs *not said here* | | | | | | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **stir** | infinitive | Bossy verbs *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:english:023-reading-non-fiction-recount-instructions-report.lesson:25`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R3-conj-first ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. 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